Using a laminated card, she gently pried a red-speckled sea star from the enclosure’s bright blue walls. The starfish was reluctant, clinging with its tiny, tubular feet. “It’s delicate to ...

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But starting in 2013, starfish started dying by the millions along the Pacific Coast from Mexico to Alaska. That was the same year that parts of the Pacific Ocean became unusually warm as part of ...

A biggie is understanding more about the nature of sea star wasting disease and how to build resilience to it among the starfish. Depending on how everything shakes out, Eddy surmises stars could ...

Starfish, crown of thorns, and sea stars live throughout the subtropics and tropics. They are bottom dwellers, so any contact with a diver is accidental. Injury occurs from the spine and the venom ...

SpongeBob SquarePants and his starfish best friend, Patrick Star, aren’t such cartoonish creatures after all. According to an image taken by a marine biologist doing remote deep-sea exploration ...

Starfish–or sea stars–will cut off one or more of their arms and grow back the limbs lost to autotomy over time. “The tissues in the region where autotomy occurs are pre-adapted to facilit ...

It is described in a study published August 2 in the Journal of Natural History. Also called sea stars, starfish are actually not really fish at all. They are echinoderms, a word that comes from ...

Unlike larger animals, smaller species like jellyfish, starfish, seahorses and sand dollars have little control over where the ocean takes them. “They’re not very strong swimmers, so they’re ...